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Unionization do work. Just look at current labour laws now and 100 years ago. Usually unions band together and elect politicals who change the law to benefit the worker.



It's not just labour conditions that improved. All conditions improved. Houses are nicer, food is plentiful, streets are cleaner....

You could say that it was due to new legislation in those areas but it could as well be that we simply became richer and richer people buy various comforts.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc and all that.


Compare USA today to (say) western european countries now. Same level of technology, yet the employee standards (how hard it is to fire, how munch paid time off there is, employee anti-discrimination law) are higher for lower paid jobs in western europe.


Sure but Americans are more productive and make way more money. It's a trade-off, not a lower standard. The standard may be even higher since many Europeans trade labour protections for more money by starting single-person companies and still can't reach American wages.




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